This book showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities, featuring case studies from Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian borderlands.
This book showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities, featuring case studies from Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian borderlands.
Dan Smyer Yü is Kuige Professor of Ethnology in the School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University Kunming, China. Erik de Maaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
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Situating Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: An Introduction Dan Smyer Yü Part I Kindred of the Earth Deities Humans and Animals 1. Relatedness Trans-species Knots and Yak Personhood in the Bhutan Highlands Jelle J.P. Wouters 2. Lepcha Water View and Climate Change in Sikkim Himalaya Charisma K. Lepcha 3. Eco-spiritual and Economic Perceptions in Bhutan's Haa District Thinley Dema Part II Aqueous Earth 4. Narratives from A Fluvial World: Poetics of Charland Dwelling in a Neocolonial Assam Bhagarbi Das 5. Painting the Genesis of the Lepcha: A World Emerging from Water Spirits Rongnyoo Lepcha and Mongfing Lepcha 6. Muddying the Waters: The Invention and Enclosure of Tibet's Wetlands Ruth Gamble Part III Evolving Cosmovisions Climate Change and Community Resilience 7. Aloof but not Abandoned: Relationality and the Exploitation of the Environment in the Garo Hills of India Erik de Maaker 8. Cordyceps Climate Change and Cosmological Imbalance in the Bhutan highlands Kinley Choki 9. Local Knowledge of Floods and Coping Strategies in Downstream Mahakali River Nepal Rashila Deshar Dibas Shrestha Sarina Maharjan and Madan Koirala Part IV Transboundary Environmentality and Indigenous Commoning 10. Indigenous Irrigation System Linking People Place and the Planet: the Practice of jamfwi on the India-Bhutan Borderlands Anwesha Dutta and Shailendra Yashwant 11. Rajaki: An Indigenous Approach to Commoning in Hunza Pakistan Zainab Khalid 12. Transboundary Environments Militarization and Minoritization: Reimagining International Relations in the Himalaya from Ladakh India Alexander Davis 13. Symbiotic Indigeneity and Commoning in the Anthropogenic Himalayas Dan Smyer Yü Conclusion: Indigenous Heritages and Sacred Earth John Grim
Situating Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: An Introduction Dan Smyer Yü Part I Kindred of the Earth Deities Humans and Animals 1. Relatedness Trans-species Knots and Yak Personhood in the Bhutan Highlands Jelle J.P. Wouters 2. Lepcha Water View and Climate Change in Sikkim Himalaya Charisma K. Lepcha 3. Eco-spiritual and Economic Perceptions in Bhutan's Haa District Thinley Dema Part II Aqueous Earth 4. Narratives from A Fluvial World: Poetics of Charland Dwelling in a Neocolonial Assam Bhagarbi Das 5. Painting the Genesis of the Lepcha: A World Emerging from Water Spirits Rongnyoo Lepcha and Mongfing Lepcha 6. Muddying the Waters: The Invention and Enclosure of Tibet's Wetlands Ruth Gamble Part III Evolving Cosmovisions Climate Change and Community Resilience 7. Aloof but not Abandoned: Relationality and the Exploitation of the Environment in the Garo Hills of India Erik de Maaker 8. Cordyceps Climate Change and Cosmological Imbalance in the Bhutan highlands Kinley Choki 9. Local Knowledge of Floods and Coping Strategies in Downstream Mahakali River Nepal Rashila Deshar Dibas Shrestha Sarina Maharjan and Madan Koirala Part IV Transboundary Environmentality and Indigenous Commoning 10. Indigenous Irrigation System Linking People Place and the Planet: the Practice of jamfwi on the India-Bhutan Borderlands Anwesha Dutta and Shailendra Yashwant 11. Rajaki: An Indigenous Approach to Commoning in Hunza Pakistan Zainab Khalid 12. Transboundary Environments Militarization and Minoritization: Reimagining International Relations in the Himalaya from Ladakh India Alexander Davis 13. Symbiotic Indigeneity and Commoning in the Anthropogenic Himalayas Dan Smyer Yü Conclusion: Indigenous Heritages and Sacred Earth John Grim
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